Plant Pots with Drainage

Minute Medium Ceramic Pot with Drainage Hole and Saucer, Bronze White

with drainage hole and saucer

$30.95
Drainage hole
Saucer Included
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The 5-inch Bronze White is a glazed ceramic plant pot with a center drainage hole and a matching saucer, and at five inches the Italian Riviera prediction has more room to make its case. This is the size where you can see why we keep insisting bronze and white together are about to have a moment again, a warmth that reads as considered rather than nostalgic.

Glazed ceramic holds moisture more evenly than raw terracotta, and no two pots resolve alike. It is the kind of color story that shows up in a magazine spread eighteen months after we started making it and gets credited to someone else entirely. We are used to this. We are still right, and the medium size is where being right is easiest to see. Set it on a shelf and the bronze does the warming while the white keeps it from tipping into costume.

Product detail
  • Color: Bronze White
  • Material: Ceramic
  • Glaze finish: Glazed Ceramic
  • Finish variation: Natural variation between pieces
  • Drainage: included
  • Saucer:
  • Dishwasher safe: Yes
  • Indoor / Outdoor: For indoor use and covered outdoor temperate weather use
  • Designed by: Chive Studio
  • Year Designed: 2017
Plants that love this pot

Potting Tips

  1. Repot in the evening.
  2. Wait 1–2 days after watering, then repot.
  3. Buy potting mix. Not backyard dirt.
  4. Move the top layer of soil from the old pot into the new one. It's a little ecosystem.
  5. Never go more than one inch bigger.
  6. Soil line sits an inch below the rim. Leca or small rocks at the bottom for drainage.

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Pot Care instructions
  1. Dishwasher-safe. Can also be hand-washed with warm soapy water and a soft cloth.
  2. Glazed pots are dipped and fired in the kiln — they are sealed, durable, and not looking for trouble. No special cleaning products required.
  3. For pots with saucers empty the saucer periodically. Standing water in the saucer defeats the purpose of having a drainage hole, which is a thing we feel strongly about.
  4. Not frost-safe. Designed for indoor use and covered outdoor temperate weather use. Freezing temperatures are not recommended.
Shipping & returns

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Returns

We accept returns within 30 days of delivery on unused items in original packaging. If your piece arrives damaged, contact us within 14 days with a photo and we will replace it at no charge.

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Bronze White at Five Inches: The Prediction, Out Loud

At five inches, the prediction behind Bronze White has the surface it needs to argue for itself. We have been telling anyone who will listen that the bronze, gold, and white palette of the 1970s Italian Riviera is due for a revival, and the medium size is where that claim stops sounding like studio eccentricity and starts looking like foresight. The warmth reads as considered rather than nostalgic, expensive in the specific way a thing designed with confidence tends to be. Being early is its own quiet reward, right up until someone else collects the loud one, at which point we remind ourselves that we knew first.

We know how this goes. A colour story we started shows up in a magazine spread a year and a half later, attributed to someone who arrived after we did, and we are expected to be gracious about it. We have decided to enjoy being early instead. Each pot resolves on its own, the bronze and white settling into a slightly different balance every time. A centre drainage hole and a matching saucer sit beneath the palette, the plain mechanics under the part we are quietly smug about. We were right early. The medium Bronze White is the size where you get to be right alongside us.

Potting a plant with Chive

  1. It's best to repot your plant in the evening. Trust us, we know.
  2. Repot 1–2 days after watering — keeps the same rhythm going and won't shock it.
  3. Potting soil is not the dirt from your backyard. Go buy good, nutrient-rich soil.
  4. The top layer of soil in your current pot should be the top layer in the new pot too. It's a little ecosystem your plant likes.
  5. Never go more than one inch bigger than your existing pot. "It'll grow into it" is not correct, and you will kill it.
  6. Keep the soil line about an inch below the top of the pot. Add some leca or small rocks to the bottom for better aeration.

The Ultimate Repotting Guide

For those who have killed a plant. Or several. Or, frankly, many.

Before you put a plant into your new pot, you have to get it out of the nursery pot — a process that ends badly more often than any gardening influencer will admit. We wrote a full guide: when to repot (early spring, and not when you're feeling impulsive in October), which soil to use, how to tell your plant is root-bound, and how to avoid the three mistakes that kill perfectly healthy plants within a week of a well-intentioned repotting.

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The Same Glaze, Other Sizes

Bronze White is the same Riviera palette at both sizes. The five-inch is where the bronze-and-white case is easiest to make.

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Drainage Is the Whole Point

A centre drainage hole and a matching saucer sit under the five-inch Bronze White, the plain mechanics beneath the part we are smug about.

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Water It Like You Mean It

The Minute Medium in Bronze White drains the way it should, which only matters if the watering keeps pace. A proper can or mister makes the difference, and ours look the part on a counter.

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Plant Tips from Chive Studio

Quick tips, straight answers, and the occasional reminder that overwatering kills more houseplants than neglect does.

Frequently asked questions

What is the Minute in Bronze White best suited to?

The Minute is a ceramic pot for indoor plants. It works well for pothos, snake plants, peace lilies, philodendrons, and small ferns and suits modern, boho, and minimalist rooms. As a medium ceramic pot, the Minute fits a shelf, sill, or desk and pairs cleanly with the rest of the Chive pot range. This listing is the Bronze White colourway.

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